is it just me or is amost everything staticly linked.

[ilikehackinggames]

aside from steam api in the steam verson it seems like at least on windows everything is staticly linked. is that correct and is it difrent with linux?

[Jap2.0]

To my knowledge: yes and no, respectively.

[ilikehackinggames]

even stuff like glibc?

[ilikehackinggames]

and whats the benifit of staticly linking i dont get it?

[eugenekay]

Factorio’s game Sandbox is required to get the same results on all Instances - else a Desync occurs due to cross-platform differences. So bringing all the Libraries in at Compile time eliminates an entire class of issues - it is always the same Assembly emitted for Math functions.

[Jap2.0]

Not sure re: glibc, but the point is generally better performance (LTO) and compatibility.

You could glean most of these by searching the forum—try terms like "glibc", "static link linux", etc.

[Rseding91]

We static link everything we can as far as I know. We would static link the c runtime library on Linux and Mac if it supported it without a ton of work.

[ilikehackinggames]

Factorio’s game Sandbox is required to get the same results on all Instances - else a Desync occurs due to cross-platform differences. So bringing all the Libraries in at Compile time eliminates an entire class of issues - it is always the same Assembly emitted for Math functions.

that makes sence. thanks!

[ilikehackinggames]

what librarys and versons of them do you use?